India's mortality rate stands hiked at 7.473 per cent in 2024. There is much to consider when it comes to the complicated string of events impacting this number ...

The most recent population surveys in India, carried out by the Bombay Natural History Society in 2003, show that the population of the oriental white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) has fallen ...

Today, the number of the first species, the long-billed vulture (gyps indicus) has gone up to 28 while the number of the Oriental white-backed vulture (gyps bengalensis) is 150.

Populations of three species of South Asian vulture - the white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis), the long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) and the slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris) have ...

Vultures At Risk From Deadly Traces Of Pain Killer Date: August 15, 2006 Source: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Summary: Asian vultures are at risk of lethal kidney failure if they feed from carcasses ...

In 1999, the Bombay Natural History Society noted a 97% drop in the Oriental white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) population at the Keoladeo National Park in the state of Rajasthan. Kidney failure ...

Time Running Out For South Asian Vultures, Ecologists Warn Date: October 1, 2004 Source: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Summary: Ecologists are calling on South Asian governments to ban veterinary use ...

Environment News: During a visit to the forest areas of Girjapuri seed farm in Western range, district forest officer (DFO) wildlife, Aasheesh Tewari spotted 216 vultur ...

KARACHI, Oct 31: In an effort to revive the population of vultures that has sharply gone down over the past 10 to 15 years in the country, a sanctuary for the species is being established in ...

KASUR, Pakistan, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- With several species of vultures on the verge of extinction in Pakistan, largely because of veterinary drugs used on cattle, an environmental group is investing in ...